Cricket News

By the time the last ball was bowled in this Third Test between Australia and New Zealand, the scoreboard at the WACA Ground in Perth was indicating a draw

Former New Zealand Under-19 batsman Michael Papps was one of a number of under-achievers in the Canterbury team last season

Australian fast bowler Brett Lee has received the maximum possible fine, but escaped suspension, after fronting International Cricket Council (ICC) match referee Jackie Hendriks last night on two charges of unbecoming conduct.

Exciting things are happening in the Knights environment

The Dunedin junior selectors are patting themselves on the back after the result of the pre-District Under-15 tournament match between the two metropolitan sides

Eight wickets lie between New Zealand and a superlative victory over closest rivals Australia in Perth this afternoon

The State Championship match between Wellington and Auckland will probably become a battle for first innings points on its final day after the loss to rain of the third day today and following the abandonment of the second under drenching showers

Take 28 wickets in one game caught between wicket-keeper and point and what have you got

New Zealand played out one of the great Test matches in Perth last night and it has to be wondered if an all-drawn three-Test series has ever produced as much cricket excitement as this series

The touring Bangladeshi cricketers have given their New Zealand Cricket liaison officer, John Bishop, a record who no other man in world cricket possesses

Out of the most unexpected circumstances cricket has the ability to throw up exciting results, and that is the way it is shaping in the bowling dominated State Championship match between Central Districts and Northern Districts in Blenheim

Andrew Schwass had every reason to be thankful for a session on former New Zealand fast bowler Gary Bartlett's massage table before Central Districts' match with Northern Districts in Blenheim

Michael Papps' maiden first-class century guided Canterbury to a dominant position against Otago at the Village Green in Christchurch today

A troubled Australia will start the final day of the Third Test with just eight second innings wickets in tact and thus battling for survival after another six hours of New Zealand dominance at the WACA Ground in Perth today.

However Queensland will have the chance to put their house in orderlater this month with the New Zealand White Ferns coming to Brisbane toplay three matches.

Trevor Chappell was looking forward to honing the Bangladesh cricketers' skills on pitches greener and better than their bare home strips, but Auckland will make him and his eager charges wait

New Zealand have given themselves a royal chance to snatch a Test victory from Australia in the third Test in Perth

Resurgent Canterbury swing bowler Warren Wisneski is delighted with the new pitch at Village Green, and in the new confidence within the team

Play was abandoned without a ball being bowled on the second day of the State Championship match between Wellington and Auckland at the Basin Reserve today, increasing the frustration of home and visiting players over a summer ruled by rain

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